The present investigation aims to examine the level of stress and anxiety among youth smokers and to compare them with non-smokers. The relation ship between appraised stress and anxiety among the smokers and nonsmokers was also ascertained. The sample constitutes 100 male subjects 50 smokers & 50 non-smokers of 18 – 25 years where taken purposively from different educational institutions of J&K. Peacock and Wong’s stress appraisal measure and Sinha and Sinha’s comprehensive anxiety scale were used to examine the level of stress and anxiety, respectively. Results revealed that smokers were significantly high on the level of stress and anxiety both. The relationship between stress and anxiety was also found to be positive for both the groups, however it was non significant in case of smokers.